Save detainees

Statement on the central prison of Hama
We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, call on the United Nations, the International Syria Support Group and relevant international bodies and organizations to protect and monitor the rights of detainees and take immediate action to ensure the safety of the prisoners of Hama Central Prison who began a protest on May 2nd 2016.
This protest was a response to the violation of the prisoner’s basic human rights at the hands of Syrian government forces. To break the deadlock the detainees presented the following demands to the government:
1. Immediate release of all detainees who have been arbitrarily arrested.
2. A stop to the transfer of detainees to other branches of the security forces or to military “field courts” and to Saidnaya prison where detainees face inevitable death as a result of severe and brutal torture.
3. An end to arbitrary and moot courts whether they be military or in the so-called “Anti-Terrorism Court” which relies on confessions extracted through torture in the security branches.
4. Improvement of conditions for detainees in which their essential needs are met and relevant international bodies are permitted to conduct periodic visits to the prison.
However, ten days after a verbal agreement was made, it appears that the regime was only buying time. Only a few prisoners have been released and when the detainees themselves demanded they implement the terms of the agreement the guards threatened to close the doors. The May 14 deadline for implementation has now expired. This means that the detainees cannot communicate with international bodies and are now in effect cut off from the outside world.
We, the undersigned individuals and organizations express our deep concern for the fate of the hundreds of detainees in Hama Prison and call on the International Community to put pressure on the regime to abide by its commitments, in particular the previously agreed release of detainees. We also call upon the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to take responsibility for the safety of the detainees of Hama Central Prison.
Signatories
A. Organizations:
1. Justice for Detainees in Syria
2. Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Researches
3. Assyrian Human Rights Network
4. Assyrian Democratic Organization
5. Kawakbi Center for Human Rights
6. Free Syrian Lawyers Aggregation
7. Lawyers for Democracy
8. Syrian Justice Center for Human Rights
9. Arab Organization for Human Rights In Syria
10. Syrian Commission for Translational Justice
11. Human Rights Guardians
12. Life for human rights
13. The Syrian Commission for Releasing Detainees
14. International Campaign to Save the Detainees in Syria
15. Free Syrian Lawyers Association
16. Free Association Bar of Homs
17. Syrian Network for Human Rights
18. Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria
19. Network Deir Al-Zour and al- Raqaa legal
20. Syrian Institute for Justice
21. The Network of Syrian Rights
22. Syrian Judiciary Council
23. Free Judicial Council
24. Syrian Commission for Transitional Justice
25. Lawyers and Doctors for Justice
26. White Helmet
27. Incentive Organization
28. National Organization Of Youth Kurds (soz)
29. Free Palestinian Syrian Assembly
30. Madani organization
31. Syrian National Assembly
32. Syrian Organization for victims of war
33. Voice of Kurdish Detainees
34. Local Council for Barada valley
35. Association for the Defense of the Detained Women
36. Detainees’ Voice
37. No2tet Bedaya Organization
38. The National Committee of the Syrian Civil Society Platform
39.Allsyrians newspaper
B. Individuals:
1. Sadiq Jalal al-Azem – Politician, writer, and professor
2. Anwar al bunni – Lawyer
3. Catherine Altalli – Lawyer
4. Razan Ghazzawi – Writer
5. Mazen Darwish – Human rights activist
6. Shiyar khalil – Journalist and human rights activist
7. Sakher Edris – Journalist
8. Hiam Altali Francis – Human rights activist
9. Sulaiman Isa – Lawyer
10. Musa al-Hayes – Lawyer
11. Zakaria Haraki – Lawyer
12. Rami Al Noman – Lawyer
13. Nabil Halabi
14. AbduIlah Ahmed
15. Ali Mohammed Sharif
16. Mariam Chamdin
17. Abd al Qader Mando
18. Wael al-Tamimi – Media
19. Molham Alhasni – Activist
20. Suheir Atassi – Politician
21. Ayat Ahmad – Activist
22. Rowaida kanaan – Journalist
23. Mohammed Ghanem – Politician
24. Anas Al Abda – Politician
25. Bassam al-Ahmad – Human rights activist
26. Yasser al-Haji – Journalist
27. Abd al-Rahman Allaf – Lawyer
28. Mekdad Sheikh kilo – Journalist
29. Ali Nemer – Journalist
30. Reem Al Numery – Pharmacist
31. Mouaffaq Nyrabia
32. Mutassim Kilani – Lawyer
33. Nedal Hanan – Journalist
34. Abd Hakim Kotaivan – Actor
35. Majed Mohammed – Writer and journalist
36. Fares Helou
37. Fahad Al Moosa – Lawyer, human rights activist, and former detainee.
38. Meral Brorda – Human rights activist
39. Iyad Sharabajee – Journalist
40. Hamid Ibrahim – Political activist
41. Assem El Azem – Doctor
42. Samira Al Masalmeh – Writer
43. Michael Kilo – Writer
44. Khalil Aslan – Lawyer
45. Adnan Abd al-Razzaq – Journalist and writer
46. Jawad Abu Hatab – Professor
47. Anwar Badr – Politician
48. Asaad al-Ashi
49. Ibrahim Nimr – Writer and journalist
50. Forat Walee
51. Shepal Ebrahim
52. Abd al-Ahad Sitevo – Politician
53. Hadi Abdullah – Activist
54. Shallal Caddo – Politician
55. Ez Aldine Maazool – Politician
56. Bader Jamouse – Politician
57. Ziad Al Heloo – Filmmaker
58. Ali Safar – Writer and journalist
59. Ali Melhem – Doctor
60. Nejarvan Afrenee – Politician
61. Abdul Sattar Faris – Politician
62. Behrouz Alwagee – Activist
63. Wael Qurmtini – Activist
64. George Sabra – Politician
65. Khaled Mahameed
66. Basma Qadamani – Politician
67. Saad Hussein – Lawyer
68. Alice Moufarrej – Politician
69. Karam Dolee – Politician
70. Al Mu’tassim al-Seyoufi – Political activist
71. Susan Moses – Political activist and writer
72. Qais Ali – Politician
73. Arie Muhammad – Politician
74. Riad Nassan Agha – Politician
75. Hind Kabawat – Politician
76. Suad Khbayh – Journalist
77. Taha Madaneia
78. Mohammed al-Aboud – Politician
79. Samer Habbush – Politician
80. Najah Abdulkadir – Politician
81. Musaab al-Hammadi – Activist
82. Omar al-Haj Ahmed
83. Alaa al Abdullah – Journalist
84. Samah Khalid
85. Rami Sweid – Journalist
86. Afaf Jqmoor – Journalist
87. Mohammed Dughmosh – Journalist
88. Fayez Sarah – Writer and journalist
89. Walid Alnbwine
90. Samer Tlaas – Human rights activist
91. Haitham Rahmeh – Politician
92. Yasmina Benshee – Journalist
93. Osama Mohammed – Filmmaker
94. Shiyar Issa – Writer
95. Osmanhan sulayman
96. Shiyar Yousef – Journalist
97. Nizar Hraki – Politician
98. Joseph Daher – Activist
99. Bassam al Quwatli
100. Hassan Abd al-Azeem – Politician
101. Maha Ghazal – Journalist
102. Nagham Ghadere – Activist
103. Abd al-Hakim Bashar – Politician
104. Asa’ad Hanna – Journalist
105. Lubna Zaaour – Journalist
106. Ahmed al-Ahmad – Journalist
107. Mariam Ahmed – Journalist
108. Hawass Khalil Saadoun – Politician
109. Safwan Jandali – Politician
110. Yasser Al-Farhan – Politician
111. Fuad Aliko – Politician
112. Nasr al-Hariri – Politician
113. Abdul Ilah Al-Fahad – Politician
114. Hisham Marwa – Politician
115. Hawass Khalil – Politician
116. Mohammed Jojh – Politician
117. Akram Assaf – Politician
118. Nazir Hakim – Politician
119. Mustafa Nawaf Al-Ali – Politician
120. Ahmed Ramadan – Politician
121.Yara Sabri
122.Mazen Esamiel- Journalist
123.Firas Tlass- businessman
124.Bassam Yousef- Politician